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A wax model of a set of yellowed and unsightly teeth seem to be suspended in the air, set against a black background.
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Toothy tales: 5 artifacts from your dental nightmares

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Oct 27, 2021
Open wide! In honour of Halloween, the Ingenium Channel offers up a tour of creepy artifacts straight out of your worst dental nightmare.
A variety of audio-visual formats, including film, audio, and different kinds of video cassettes, from the Les Harris Fonds are spread out on a table.
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View from above: Capturing the experience of flight on film

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Oct 25, 2021
How do filmmakers capture the experience of flight on film? Read about one filmmaker’s strategies.
A Mathis VL 333 light and economical automobile. Fernand de Laborderie, “Le 33e Salon de l’automobile.” La Nature, 15 October 1946, 331.
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A vision of the future for a firm running out of steam: The French Mathis VL333 light and economical automobile

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Oct 24, 2021
I have a confession to make, my reading friend. I am not a big fan of automobiles. While I readily recognise the cultural, emotional, financial, industrial, mythical, political, practical, religious (?), social, technological, etc., importance of that mode of transport, the fact is that, around 2019, road transport despatched in the atmosphere of our good old Earth about 18% of the world’s anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. That is no small thing. This being said (typed?), yours truly must
A graphical image depicts a secure data-sharing platform through a series of icons, including a lock, key, and documents.
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Health & Wellness
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A shared brain: Data-sharing platform shows researchers the big picture

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Oct 22, 2021
The Ontario Brain Institute has a vision to bring the worldwide research community together, using a neuroinformatics platform called Brain-CODE.
A coastal reconnaissance Bristol Bolingbroke destined for the Royal Canadian Air Force being assembled at the Fairchild Aircraft Limited factory, Longueuil, Québec, 1941. Anon., “Les C.F. et la R.C.A.F.” Le Samedi, 18 October 1941, (c).
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“We must get aircraft equipment and look after our coasts” – The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Bristol Bolingbroke coastal reconnaissance aircraft

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Oct 17, 2021
How would you like to read a fascinating text while sipping a glass of turnip juice, my reading friend? If so, you are in for a treat, if I may quote the vampire Eric Northman. I think. I hope. And yes, the topic in question is one of the aircraft types in the fabulous collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Before we go any further on the yellow brick road that we are following today, yours truly would like to mansplain the title of the article published in Le
A composite image of several orange pumpkins, a spacecraft next to a rocky body, and a zombie
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Agriculture
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3 things you should know about pumpkins, Trojan asteroids, and embracing your inner zombie

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Oct 15, 2021
For the October edition, our science advisors discuss how selective breeding results in more choice at the pumpkin patch, a fly-by of seven Trojan asteroids, and why you need to embrace your “inner zombie.” Happy Halloween!
The prototype of the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter on display at the Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, circa 2001. CASM.
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From pole to pole and horizon to horizon, the Twin Otter was, is and will be there: A very brief pontification on one of the best Canadian aircraft ever designed

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Oct 10, 2021
Greetings, my reading friend. Yours truly is happy to see that you wish to drink once again from the fountain of knowledge that our anarchic and overly chatty blog / bulletin / thingee sometimes constitutes. I will not tell you anything you did not already know by saying (typing?) that the supremely illustrious Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, acquired a very important aircraft in October 1981 and ... What do you say? You do not have a clue of what I am talking (typing?)
Three Conservators wearing personal protective equipment, including Tyvek suits, googles, nitrile gloves and respirators.
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Communications
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Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

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Oct 8, 2021
From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, February 2009. Wikipedia.
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The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 2

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Oct 3, 2021
Ahh, you are back. What a pleasant surprise. Would I be correct in assuming that you wish to see (read?) the second and final part of this article on the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the fantabulastic Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario? Wunderbar! The story of that particular example of the B.E.2 began in England, in the factory of British & Colonial Aeroplane Company Limited, as most of Europe was busy tearing itself to pieces during the First World War. Completed in late
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum when it belonged to the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario. H.J. (“Titch”) Jenkins, “Correspondence – Ottawa’s – and Sowrey’s – B.E.2c.” Flight, 12 October 1961, 600.
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The strange and baffling case of the switched aeroplanes; or, Even when using New Mathematics, 4112 never equals 5878: The tall tale of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 1

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Oct 1, 2021
With your permission, or without it if need be, my reading friend, I would like to launch this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with a question. Do your like mysteries and / or oddities? Me too. By the way, did you know that, as late as 2017, the Public Works & Environmental Services of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, the nonbilingual capital of a bilingual country, sometimes used divining rods to locate an underground pipe suspected of leaking? I kid you not, but I do digress. Now that yours
A women receives a COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker in a school gym. Six people stand in the background, watching and clapping.
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Tech tales: Capturing the stories behind Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout

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Sep 29, 2021
Did you ever stop to think about the chain of events that had to happen before you could roll up your sleeve for a COVID-19 vaccine?
Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan. Anon., “Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, 17 September 1921, cover.
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One of the pioneers of agricultural science in Québec and Canada: Isidore Joseph Amédée Marsan

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Sep 26, 2021
As a member of the species Homo sapiens, or wise man in English, an oxymoron of oxymorons if there is one, my reading friend, you must eat to survive. Agriculture played / plays a crucial role in this survival of humanity which over time became an almost exponential growth in population which threatens the balance, and even perhaps the survival of the Earth’s ecosystem. I would like to share a few words with you today about one of the pioneers of agricultural science in Québec and Canada
An advertisement for St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited, Port Credit, Ontario. Anon., “Advertisement – St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, September 1941, 61.
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Aviation
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Free, magnificent cards bearing drawings or photographs of Allied aircraft! Collect them all!

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Sep 19, 2021
Do you like gifts, my reading friend? And no, in this case, this is not a rhetorical question. This being said (typed?), I do not have the slightest intention of giving you anything. I simply wish to make use of an advertisement which appeared in the September 1941 issue of the Québec monthly magazine Le Bulletin des agriculteurs of Montréal, Québec, to pontificate on the question with which I have just introduced this September 2021 issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. You are obviously